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...first night of the Germans' weekend visit, the Verdunois turned out appreciatively for a concert of Bach, Handel and Mozart, played by young German musicians in the 12th century cathedral that was shredded by German Big Berthas in 1916. Many of the visitors were invited to meals in French homes; even when they had to speak in sign language, the lesson was plain. The price of Verdun, as a German high school student put it, was not eternal hatred but eternal awareness that "we can help prevent the repetition of these terrible happenings...
...been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman, is to the "ba-roquenik - a music lover with both taste...
...baroqueniks is Festival Conductor Thomas Dunn, 37, who divides his time between his regular duties as organist at Manhattan's Episcopal Church of the Incarnation and such special music projects as this summer's festival and last fall's three sellout per formances of all of Bach's Brandenburg concertos. Says Dunn of the baroque: "The music of that period speaks to our time...
Institute for Humanistic Studies, where one may attend two-hour discussions on Aristotle's Ethics or Herman Kahn's thermonuclear theories. The music is just as uncompromising. A typical program may consist of a Bach suite, a Mozart piano concerto, and a trio of demanding modern works by Darius Milhaud, conducted by the arthritically crippled composer from his wheelchair. All 40 of the visiting artists also teach, and among those present besides Milhaud this season are Met Opera Star Eleanor Steber and the renowned teacher of Van Cliburn, Rosina Lhevinne. By encouraging the festivaliant to start...
...repertory of 1,200 numbers goes from spirituals to Bach, Beethoven and Mendelssohn. Backed up by the 10,000-pipe tabernacle organ, with Veteran Organists Alexander Schreiner or Frank Asper, the choir, nicknamed "the singing Saints," has a weight and body unexcelled in choral sound. But "we have not let this become a canned thing," says Director Condie, and he often explores more dissonant modern music. Still, his favorite is a hymn written by one who went with Brigham Young's wagon train, William Clayton, while the prairie winds blew about...